NISL for 11-19 - in SW

[Stuart Thiessen]

Well, I think the dot does matter. I think it depends on whether it is 
primarily an opening movement or a closing movement. ASL 11 is an 
opening movement so we use the white dot.  But something like the ASL 
sign for HUH? (
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) requires black dots because it is a closing movement.

So it does really make a difference as far as the movements are  
concerned.

Stuart
On Oct 30, 2005, at 16:15, Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa wrote:

> i think it doesnt really matter which dot u use seeing that its  
> twodots - same thing really.
> Check the ASL sign for '11' - we imported a lot of our signs from  
> OldASL (120 years ago) into NISL - its much the same really - their  
> '11'is our '12' so on
> Shane
> On 30/10/05, Lucyna Dlugolecka <deafie at gmx.net> wrote:> Shane  
> Gilchrist O hEorpa napisa?(a):>> >that was on Val's advice - beside  
> the finger has to be flicked twice> >On 30/10/05, Lucyna Dlugolecka  
> <deafie at gmx.net> wrote:> shane.gilchrist.oheorpa at gmail.com  
> napisa?(a):>> > 11 twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen  
> eighteen nineteen> >> > Val,> >> > now theres the NISL number from 11  
> onwards to 19.> >> > excellent.> >> > its getting complicated from 20  
> onwards :-( - I ll let it lie for a> > while until everyone stops  
> getting sick of my emails!!!> >> > :-)> >> > Shane> >> Shane, and  
> shouldn't the dots be black??>> Lucy>>> >> >> >> >> Hmm, maybe I don't  
> get something? For example, we have numerals with> dots, too, here is  
> 300>  
> http://signbank.org/signpuddle/sgn-PL/search.php? 
> sign=300&search=300&type=any>> I'm attaching also description of the  
> dots from the SW textbook.>> Lucy>>>
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